Bug#397162: vim shows question mark instead of character

Taneli Vähäkangas taneli.vahakangas at welho.com
Mon Sep 1 16:56:19 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:07:35AM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:20:31PM +0300, Taneli Vähäkangas wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 03:24:04PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> > > Version: 2:7.2.000-1
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:33:29PM +0200, Taneli Vähäkangas wrote:
> > > > I'm using gnome-terminal 2.14.2-1 with "Luxi Mono" font set to size 9.
> > > > Possibly that font does not include the letter in question: how do I
> > > > tell? OTOH, Character Map shows a tooltip saying "MPH 2B Damase" when
> > > > I right-click on ugaritic characters, so you can try that:
> > > > ttf-mph-2b-damase 001.000-3
> > > 
> > > This seems related to the fonts the terminal is using.  Gnome-terminal
> > > is able to use multiple fonts as needed to display unicode characters.
> > > Testing with current gnome-terminal and Vim, this does indeed work
> > > correctly.  As such, I'm closing it.
> > 
> > Well, currently both "cat" and "emacs -nw" can show the character
> > correctly in the same gnome-terminal, but vim still only shows a
> > question mark. I see no reason to close it.
> 
> I closed it because Vim *is* working correctly for me in gnome-terminal.
> In fact, it seemed to work fine regardless of the font I told
> gnome-terminal to use.

You're 100% correct, sir. I'm sorry, for whatever reason my vim
hadn't been upgraded. Now all is working correctly. Thank you.

Cheers,

	Taneli





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